Necktie-tying device



June 9, 1925. 1,541,740

- G. PONAROUSE NECKTIE TYING DEVICE Filed June 29, 1922 I INVENTOR.

Patented June 9, 1925 GEORGE PONAROUSE, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

NEGKTIE-TYING DEVICE.

Application filed June 29, 1922. Serial No. 571,703.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonen PoNARoUsn, a citizen of the United States, and residing in the city and county of San Francisco,

State of California, have invented'a new and useful Improvement in Necktie-Tying Devices.

The object of this invention is to con struct a practical and simple necktie fas- 1 tener which can be attached to and detached from the collar with the least exertion, and at the same time insure the wearer against its becoming unfastened or turning lop-sided under any possible neck movement.

The following description with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a front view of the necktie fastener.

Fig. 2 is a front view of the necktie fastener with a necktie tied on in four-in-hand style.

Fig. 3 is a front view of the fastener, without a necktie, showing its application to a comparatively high turn-down collar and being interlocked with the stud thereof as shown in full lines and in detached posi- 30 tion by the dotted lines.

Referring to the drawings in detail and as clearly shown in Fig. 1, the device is made of a single strand of spring wire bent into a horizontal shaft A, with sides B and C of about equal height and sloping outwardly; at the top of side C the wire is bent downward, making the arm D, which extends parallel with but some distance below shaft A, and at the lower terminal of y W this arm a loop E is formed, the loop being adapted to receive the head of a collar button in a manner as will be presently described.

After tying the necktie in four-inhand style on the fastener, as shown in Fig. 2, the fastener is inserted between the folds of the turn-down collar, as shown in Fig 3 (the necktie is here eliminated and the outside fold of the collar is partly torn off so as to expose the fastener to view when fas- 0 tened on the collar button) the tops of the sides B and C are arranged adjacent the juncture of the down-turned portions of the collar, the loop E at the bottom of the collar on the dotted line G G- is forced upward obliquely as indicated by dotted line H, till it reaches the button F, where it is snapped on the neck thereof. The pressure of forcing the arm D upward will cause all the parts of the fastener to change a little from their former position, as the dotted lines indicate, but they will relax back to their former position as soon as the loop E is u'nsnapped from the collar button; the necktie; being tied on said fastener will now be held in place until unfastened by unsnapping the loop from the collar button.

Having described my invention, what I claim is:

A fastener of. the character described 7 formed from a single strand of wire bent to provide a horizontal portion, converging side pieces rising from the horizontal portion, an arm extending downwardly from one of the side pieces in spaced parallel re- 7 lation therewith and terminating below the horizontal portion in a loop adapted to receive a collar button as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony of which, I hereby afliX my 30 signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE PONAROUSE. Witnesses E. B. STONE, J. F. BURGIN. 

